DAdakolli·Mar 2, 2026
Is this just devtools protocol wrapped by an MCP? I've been doing this with go-rod for two years...
https://github.com/go-rod/rod
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A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.
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A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.
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nice, i love playright I use it but also https://github.com/go-rod/rod in golang world
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11 sourcesnice, i love playright I use it but also https://github.com/go-rod/rod in golang world
In Stealthy Playwright Mode: Bypass CAPTCHAs and Bot-Detection [video]hmm, I have an MCP route, that fetches the page in a browser, returns and lets the LLM inject javascript onto the page to return whatever structured output it desires..Or whatever (kinda scarily). How is this different?
--Shoutout to Go-Rod https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-rod/rod@v0.116.2#Page
In MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser AutomationThis is really awesome, I do this myself with https://github.com/go-rod/rod
I have hacky cli tools I've built with it that manage lots of different browser profiles for scrapers. I need some sort of API though so I'm not sure Donut will do it for me, however, I may find some use for it.
In Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestratornice, i've been using https://github.com/go-rod/rod or python playwright for this and doing the logic to clean the html into text. But this is nice 1 step solution.
In Show HN: Puremd-mcp – MCP server for reliably accessing web contenthttps://github.com/go-rod/rod
https://go-rod.github.io/
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python
https://playwright.dev/python/
In Ask HN: Why are there no open-source Remote Browser Isolation solutions?Show HN: github.com/go-rod/rod to get screenshots of latest new posts here
I used to only look at the homepage here. But then one day I started going to the fresh new articles and I like that even better. But clicking on the ones that title resonated with me isn't as cool as:
https://i.imgur.com/3i3G4l5.jpeg
This image comes from:
https://github.com/andrewarrow/aaai/tree/main/examples/hnai
That aaai repo (tripple AI) is a port of aider.chat to golang. Or at least the start of that port. This example hnai program was written in vibecoding style. At first it was just an example program to test aaai logic. But I find myself running it and viewing the images now all the time!
If you haven't use github.com/go-rod/rod yet for browser stuff it's amazing. Like python's playwright.
1 points · Open discussionOne of the dependencies is `rod`[0], which is a web scraping/automation library, and I believe requires a browser to work. I don't know what they're using it for though as I haven't looked at the code (and I'm not familiar with Go anyways). There's a feature of the library that finds and installs a browser, but they may just be preemptively including chromium in the dockerfile and assuming that non-docker users will already have a supported browser on their machine.
0: https://github.com/go-rod/rod
In VHS: CLI home video recorderIf performance, Especially concurrency matters then we should include Go based libraries in the discussion as well.
Colly[1] is a all batteries included scrapping library, But could be bit intimidating for someone new to HTML scrapping.
rod [2] is a browser automation library based on DevTools Protocol which adheres to Go'ish way of doing things and so it's very intuitive but comes with overhead of running chromium browser even if its headless.
[1] https://github.com/gocolly/colly
[2] https://github.com/go-rod/rod
In Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from ScratchI wonder how much difference the scripting language would have made to these benchmarks if any. OP if you are up to it, I would suggest using Python, Go with Chromedp and also rod[1] next time for same tests.
[1]https://github.com/go-rod/rod
In Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO